The characters in ‘20th Century Women’ find themselves torn between embracing the new and retreating into the familiar.

It would be an exaggeration to call “Juno” pro-life, but it is encouraging to see a popular film diverge from the familiar culture war battle lines.

“Petite Maman” is a magical-realist story about children and parents, the things we can’t say and learning to understand each other.

Philomena’s faith doesn’t dismiss or excuse the church’s sins, but she has made peace with living in the tension.

“Irena’s Vow” is true story of a Catholic nurse who used her position to shelter a dozen Jews in World War II-era Poland.

“O Brother, Where Art Thou?” is the closest that the Coens have come to making a musical, and the film’s lush period folk soundtrack enriches its spiritual themes.